Anthropic's fast, low-cost Claude Haiku for high-volume work, succeeding Claude Haiku 4.5.
Open-source reasoning model matching OpenAI o1 performance.
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Both Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Claude Haiku 5.5 has a lower blended cost. Claude Haiku 5.5: $0.10 input / $0.50 output. DeepSeek R1: $0.70 input / $2.50 output.
Claude Haiku 5.5 has a larger context window: Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1M tokens vs DeepSeek R1 at 64K tokens.
Claude Haiku 5.5 supports vision/image input, but DeepSeek R1 does not.
Key differences: Claude Haiku 5.5 is significantly cheaper; only Claude Haiku 5.5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.